Chess Quotes · Page 33

[Vladimir] Putin is more of a poker player. In poker, unlike chess, you can effectively compensate for a very weak hand by…

— Garry Kasparov

Perfectly correct chess exists only in theory.

— Garry Kasparov

Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!

— Edmar Mednis

I have visited Tromsø and can personally say Tromsø is a beautiful city, well equipped to be an excellent choice for the…

— Susan Polgar

The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Like mortars in old war films, they are often ready to destroy the opponent's unsupported defences.

— Alexey Suetin

I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will…

— Wilhelm Steinitz

On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long

— Emanuel Lasker

“It'll be like a game of chess. We can let the game unfold as it did before, but if we want to…

— Darren Shan

I think chess players are not always what you think them to be. Or maybe it's our job to appear serious.

— Anish Giri

My love of dynamic complications often led me to avoid simplicity when perhaps it was the wisest choice.

— Garry Kasparov

The triumph of the analytical movement, which formed in the '30's and '40's, was precisely what earned the Soviet masters the acclaim…

— Mikhail Botvinnik

What would Chess be without silly mistakes?

— Kurt Richter

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

— Bobby Fischer

Chess is most certainly not my life.

— Tony Miles

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Chess is like a delicious drug which offers such heavenly delights that they can never tear themselves away from it completely.

— Reuben Fine

Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these…

— Bent Larsen

I just think we should look at this as a chess match," he said, "between the world's greatest chess player and Garry…

— Lou Gerstner

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess…

— Hod Lipson

Here and there in the ancient literature we encounter legends of wise and mysterious games that were conceived and played by scholars,…

— Hermann Hesse

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

— Bobby Fischer

I will not hide the fact that I love to hear the spectators react after a sacrifice of a piece or pawn.…

— Mikhail Tal

Had I not played the Sicilian with Black I could have saved myself the trouble of studying for more than 20 years…

— Bent Larsen

Be warned! From Satan's viewpoint you are a pawn in his game of cosmic chess.

— Adrian Rogers